Historian Heather Cox Richardson: We’re Seeing the End of a 40-Year Era; ‘We’re Seeing Dramatic Changes in Both Political Parties’

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COX RICHARDSON: “And that’s a really different kettle of fish, if you think about it. Because if you look at the results in places like New Jersey, there was an election that people looked very closely at a district in New Jersey, and it was very clear from the numbers. But that was not just Democrats turning out. That was not just Democrats and Republicans turning out. That was not just Democrats, Republicans and independents turning out, but that some of the people who crossed the aisle were MAGA voters. And I think that we are seeing the end of at least a 40-year era in American history. We are realigning in a lot of different ways. We’re seeing dramatic changes in both political parties. And I, you know, I don’t predict the future. I predict the past, if you will. But where we are looks a great deal like the periods in our history when we have reclaimed democracy and built something more inclusive on the other side. And so, when I look at what I said before that election Tuesday, of the elections, is no matter what happened, the work was going to continue the next day. And that work is ongoing, for sure. But there is increasingly in it, I think, a joy in the idea of fixing some of the wrongs of the past two generations. And that’s exciting.”